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5 days ago | them.us | Quispe Lopez

If you look through the Instagram comments section of music’s biggest stars, like Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, or Madonna, you’ll likely see some variation of the following celebrity worship: “Mother!!” “She is so mother.” “Mother is mothering.” But what does it mean to be a mother in that sense? These commenters aren’t talking about motherhood in the traditional sense, though they may not realize that they’re using a term that’s been slurped up into mainstream lexicon from the queer community.

5 days ago | them.us | Abby Monteil

Sign up for The Agenda — Them’s news and politics newsletter, delivered to your inbox every Thursday. Abandon your summer plans, because Jane Schoenbrun is taking us to sleepaway camp. Today, Mubi announced that Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson will star in the I Saw The TV Glow director’s next feature, titled Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. The film follows a director preparing to reboot a Friday the 13th-esque franchise called Camp Miasma.

5 days ago | them.us | Abby Monteil

Sign up for The Agenda — Them’s news and politics newsletter, delivered to your inbox every Thursday. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has instructed the Pentagon to kick out all trans service members by June 6 following the Supreme Court’s May 6 order to allow Donald Trump’s trans troop ban to go into effect while litigation continues to play out.

6 days ago | them.us | Kate Sosin

This post originally appeared on The 19th. On January 20, the day that President Trump again took the oath of office, Monique “Muffie” Mousseau got a slew of emails and phone calls. “Homophobic people were saying the most horrific things,” she recalled.

6 days ago | them.us | Mariel Padilla

This post originally appeared on The 19th. After a little more than 24 hours of anticipation, the telltale white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday — signaling that the Roman Catholic Church’s 133 eligible cardinals had come to a two-thirds majority vote on who the next pope should be. The bells of St. Peter’s Basilica chimed, the crowd in St. Peter’s Square waved flags from different continents and chants could be heard: “Viva il Papa!” Long live the pope.